The South Queensland IOM Championships attracted 28 nominations to the Newport venue, 24th & 25th March. The fleet was so strong that it looked like a continuation of the last Nationals with sailors from New South Wales and Western Australia continuing to battle it out with the locals.

At the end of the first day Paul Jones had established a clear lead with Sean Wallis the closest competitor. This pattern remained for day two with Jones ending with less than half of the points of the Wallis who remained in second place. It was sheer consistency that has seen Jones take out this event and the Australian Championships earlier this year in Hobart. One of Jones's dropped races was a 3rd place.

The last race of the event was sailed in absolute drifting conditions and although luck can play a bigger part at those times, Jones won it decisively to cap off the event for him.

Interestingly there were three different boat constructions in the top three positions and only half of the top ten were Queenslanders, showing how well this event was supported by the wider IOM community.

The local Councilor James Houghton who has continued his support and promotion of the sport did presentations to the winners.

Our goal with this new website is to provide our visitors information relating to the event to be managed by the Queensland Radio Yachting Association and hosted by the Moreton Radio Yacht Squadron at Newport, Queensland in February 2019.

We will be constantly updating our website with helpful information, news and other announcements.

The official Notice of Race and Online Entry will be available in the coming months and we encourage you to watch our website for details.

For any questions, suggestions, feedback or comments please use the contact form on the website. Thank you

The WHITSUNDAY MODEL BOAT CLUB INC. have been in the doldrums for some time now trying to build the club's membership with IOM's only, and were not having any success. They asked Col Cameron for some advice and he recommended they pursue the DF95 class as it is similar in size to the IOM's and the fleets are building rapidly across Australia.

Within 3 weeks they have a fleet of 6 x DF95's with more to come, have increased membership by 3 already, and they have an excited outlook for their club.

See their latest video of the new DF95s sailing on their You Tube channel .